Robert Service reviews Simon Hall’s ‘Three Revolutions’ in the New Statesman

‘Hall rightly emphasises that the revolutions were hungry for the world to know about them. In Russia, so-called Soviet power was precarious. Leading Bolsheviks were so beleaguered in 1917-18 that they kept their suitcases packed in case they had to run from a German invasion’

Professor Robert Service’s review of Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the World by Simon Hall can be found here